Possible Clues:

• It goes over the wall
• Long shot
• Greek poet, Simpson
• Blind man trained to get back to house
• Great Greek poet of the Iliad and the Odyssey
• One of the 30 across in flight and in Greek
• ''The Odyssey'' poet
• He may have written an odyssey on one-eyed football referees!
• 5-Across poet
• ''Odyssey'' poet